CDI - Regional Manufacturing Excellence Manager (H,F,X)

Job Description

Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?

Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It Uniquely Yours.

You coordinate and implement our operational excellence program to help our leaders deliver results. A core part of this role is to create a continuous improvement (CI) mindset and to provide tools and technique capabilities to develop organizational self sufficiency.

How you will contribute

You will:

• Apply CI principles, tools and techniques to create a zero-loss culture that enhances our capabilities in loss identification, loss eradication and prevention
• Nurture a CI culture that challenges the status quo and changes our employees’ behaviors
• Provide training on CI tools and techniques to drive teams through CI cycles. You will also coach employees so they can successfully achieve their targets
• Encourage leaders to manage performance using balanced score cards. You will also coordinate the KPI performance review, using root-cause analysis for those out of target and implementing corrective actions
• Benchmark externally, ensuring where relevant that best practice and new tools are deployed I collaboration with internal partners

What you will bring

A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career and the following experience and knowledge:

• Experience in implementing CI processes (e.g. TPM for manufacturing, Lean Six Sigma in consumer goods industry)
• Servant leadership and great team player
• Experience in change cultural and management processes
• Effective communication and organizational agility
• Strategic approach/thinking and strong capacity of influence
• Ability to teach others and develop talent
• Results oriented and prepared to deal with ambiguity
• Experience in continuous improvement, project/engineering, production

More about this role

In this role, you will support four plants in France—in Besançon, Charleville-Mézières, Jussy, and Vervins—in implementing Mondelez International’s Manufacturing Excellence program.

To this end, your responsibilities will include the following:

- Taking accountability for results improvement by leading TPM implementation (incl. Run to Standard/Run To Target) on the shop floor, working directly with operators and support functions :

• Facilitating hands-on problem-solving sessions to tackle actual breakdowns, equipment and process losses,
• Conducting gemba walks and identifying improvement opportunities based on real-time and data-driven observations
• Running practical autonomous maintenance workshops, ensuring operators apply IL6S methods in daily operations
• Monitoring results and ensuring that TPM initiatives bring measurable improvements in OEE, downtime reduction and defect rates.

- Engaging directly with machine operators, Team Leaders, Line Centric Organization to build a culture of ownership over equipment and work-processes.

- Assess progress, makes summary and report it out to senior management.

- Challenge Plant Leadership Team on pace, quality and deliverables from program implementation.

Success Profile

- You have hands-on experience implementing TPM (training teams, driving a culture of change on the shop floor).

- You lead sessions focused on solving real-world problems (guiding teams to identify and implement solutions, while taking ownership of the results).

- You enjoy concret actions (working directly with production teams, demonstrating TPM principles in action).

- You know how to engage operators and all levels of management in TPM, ensuring they take ownership of maintenance activities and problem-solving.

- You possess strong facilitation and coaching skills to effectively guide teams through the continuous improvement process.

- You understand production-related challenges and adapt your approach to implementing TPM to different environments, with a focus on concrete results.

Relocation Support Available?

Business Unit Summary

We value our talented employees, and whenever possible strive to help one of our associates grow professionally before recruiting new talent to our open positions. If you think the open position you see is right for you, we encourage you to apply!

Our people make all the difference in our succes

Mondelēz International is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or preference, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Excited to grow your career?

We value our talented employees, and whenever possible strive to help one of our associates grow professionally before recruiting new talent to our open positions. If you think the open position you see is right for you, we encourage you to apply!

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